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Research Group on Assessment and Measurement: Education for Social Cohesion - GemEduco

Description

The research group originated in 1985 with the creation of the area of Research and Diagnostic Methods in Education (Royal Decree 1888, BOE 257 of 16 October 1984). The evolution of the universities and the development of MIDE gave rise, over the years, to specific groups, among which the Evaluation and Measurement in Education Group was born. This evolved into a research group (Evaluation and Measurement Group, Education for Social Cohesion -GemEduCo-, as well as another closely related innovation group: InnovaMIDE, recognised as an educational innovation and teaching quality group by the Universitat de València. Both groups serve the overall purpose of research and training of researchers in the field of Educational Measurement and Evaluation. 

GemEduCo aims to analyse the capacity of Education for social transformation. To this end, it builds on the research tradition developed since 2005 through projects funded through competitive calls in the field of educational measurement and evaluation, aimed at the study of methodologies for the design of instruments and models for the evaluation of educational systems and institutions. In this period the projects AVACO (Analysis of Context Variables; SEJ2005-05995) and MAVACO (Models of Analysis of Context Variables; EDU2099-1385), both funded as R&D projects by the Spanish State (through the MICINN), were undertaken. Since 2013, already from the GemEduCo structure, he leads the SECS/EVALNEC project (EDU2012-34734; MINECO) "Education System and Social Cohesion: design of a needs assessment model", focused on the extended definition of the concept of Social Cohesion proposed by the Council of Europe (2000, 2005). Since 2016, the Group has been developing a new competitive project (EDU2016-78065-R; MINECO) focused on the Validation of an evaluation system for university degrees based on a Social Cohesion Model. These projects have functioned as an articulating element of teaching and research, allowing the defence of several Doctoral Theses, Master's and Bachelor's Degree Final Projects, as well as the publication of numerous articles, as shown on the group's website. In addition, the EVALEF Project (2012-2016, code EDU2011-29467; MINECO) Validation of an evaluation instrument of Family Educational Styles, anchored in the topic of evaluation of educational systems, has opened a specific line of research in the field of educational measurement that is also linked to the establishment of guidelines for the design of intervention programmes with families. 

Complementarily, he develops other projects on the design of measurement instruments and evaluation systems (in the field of lexical competence [EVA-LEX; UV-INV_AE11-42034]-, or the evaluation of the network of conservatories and the design of instruments to assess musical and dance competence -Consellería d'Educació i Esport; Generalitat Valenciana-) in which he applies his developments in these methodologies. 

On the other hand, it has an intense collaboration with international institutions and researchers either through its own projects or in collaboration with international projects. Special mention should be made of the group's participation in the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in Teaching Evaluation (RIIED) and collaborations with universities in Latin America, the United States of America and Europe.

This "know-how" and "know-how" is part of the research training task of the GemEduCo group, which is involved with specific teaching on measurement and evaluation in education in several official masters of the Universitat de València (Master in Policy, Management and Direction in Educational Organisations, Master in Psychopedagogy, Master in Social and Educational Action, Master in Social and Educational Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action, Master in Educational and Social Action), Master in Social and Educational Action, Master in Special Education, International Master in Migration, Master in Educational Psychology and Human Development in Multicultural Contexts) and in the Doctorate in Education - all of them at the Universitat de València, and has given rise to the defence of numerous Doctoral Theses and Final Degree and Master's Theses. It also receives numerous guest researchers and PhD students from different countries for stays at the UV. At the moment, its specific line of work focuses on the design and development of instruments and plans for the evaluation of Educational Systems and Institutions, Teachers, Students, programmes and materials. Likewise, in collaboration with the InnovaMIDE group, it designs and evaluates on-line materials for training in various areas of psycho-pedagogical measurement and evaluation. 

Two concepts that are at the basis of all the GemEduCo group's lines of work: 

  1. Education is carried out by the whole of society, from the intentional action developed in educational institutions, to all the non-formal elements that act with educational consequences and the informal ones, as well as the action of social models of reference; and 
  2. The development of a true culture of evaluation must be based on the rigour of the research carried out on the strategies and instruments for psycho-socio-pedagogical measurement, evaluation and diagnosis. Creating a culture of evaluation is not satisfied with "improvised, administratively or politically charged evaluation", but in the careful work that identifies the added value of a methodologically well-conducted evaluation.
Goals CT

From a systemic and holistic perspective, the main objective is to develop evaluation processes (models, instruments and techniques) that help to improve education, conceived as an action of society as a whole. To this end, the specific objectives, which have already been materialised in developments available to society, are as follows:

  1. To research on methodological alternatives that contribute to the improvement of the design of measurement instruments, evaluation techniques and models of evaluation and educational diagnosis, based on innovative methodologies for the development of instruments, metric validation and the design of more efficient tests, offering useful and reliable solutions from methodological complementarity for the development of quality instruments.
  2. To design Models of Educational Evaluation (of systems, Institutions, programmes, materials and educational actors -teachers, students, management teams-) based on the contribution made by Education to the improvement of Social Cohesion defined according to the proposal made by the Council of Europe in Lisbon (2000) and published in 2005, as an objective for the development of public policies in the European Union.
  3. To design evaluation instruments and techniques aimed at gathering information about the dimensions included in the aforementioned Model, which are: Social Well-being (for all), Sustainability (throughout life), Social Justice and Equity (in access to resources and opportunities), Integration of diversity (personal and social), Participation (social). The evaluation instruments must comply with the quality requirements (reliability and validity) of the measuring instruments, as well as gather relevant information from different groups (educational administration, management, teaching staff, students, families) in order to provide maximum usefulness to the evaluation of the educational system. 
  4. To metrically validate the instruments developed. The evaluation instruments must comply with quality requirements (reliability and validity), as well as gather relevant information from different groups (educational administration, management, teachers, students, families) in order to provide maximum usefulness to the evaluation of the education system, at the different levels evaluated in each case.
  5. To design integrated diagnostic sets for different psycho-pedagogical purposes.
  6. To offer educational centres at different levels, based on the model and the instruments developed, significant feedback on their educational quality in terms of their contribution to social cohesion, and relevant lines and plans for improvement for continuous innovation in this area.
Research lines

Evaluation of education systems

GEM-Educo aims to provide measurement and evaluation instruments that serve to assess the contributions that Education makes towards the development and transformation of society, from a concept of Social Cohesion. It integrates different perspectives and aims to build a global model for the evaluation of education systems, in order to improve education in favour of Social Cohesion. GEM-Educo is developed with a commitment: to evaluate education (whether in the Systems, Institutions or Programmes) from a position that privileges the right of all to a quality education. In other words, integrating inclusion as a basis for achieving excellence. In this sense, the concept of Social Cohesion adopted by the Council of Europe (Lisbon, 2000, 2005), as a guide for the development of public policies, constitutes an integrating and systemic vision of quality, which can embrace the idea of quality as a right for the whole of society from any ideological position. For this reason, GEM-Educo aims to provide measurement and evaluation instruments which serve to assess the contributions which Education makes towards the development and transformation of society, based on a concept of Social Cohesion. In short, it integrates different perspectives and, due to its holistic - globalising - nature, aims to build a model which necessarily requires the support of a large research group and different projects.

Management
  • JORNET MELIA, JESUS MIGUEL
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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Members
  • BAKIEVA KARIMOVA, MARGARITA
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
  • Coordinador/a Curs
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  • GONZALEZ SUCH, JOSE
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
  • Director/a Titulacio Master Oficial
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  • PERALES MONTOLIO, MARIA JESUS
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
  • Director/a Titulacio Master Oficial
  • Director/a de Departament
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  • SANCHEZ DELGADO, PURIFICACION
  • PDI-Titular d'Universitat
  • Secretari/a de Departament
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  • SANCHO ALVAREZ, CARLOS
  • PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
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Associated structure
Research Methods and Educational Assessment
Contact group details
Assessment and Measurement Group: Education for Social Cohesion (GemEduco)

Blasco Ibáñez Campus

Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 30

46010 València (Valencia)

+34 963 864 430

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www.uv.es/gem

gem@uv.es

Contact people
  • JORNET MELIA, JESUS MIGUEL
  • PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
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